Influence/Impact of Economic Factors Towards the Domestic Gender Equality of Rural Women Self Help Groups –An Analytical Approach

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Dr. V. Manimegalai, Dr. K.N. Baluprithviraj, Ms .K. Arulini, Dr. V. Rajeshwari, Dr .S. Karthigai

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Self Help Groups (SHGs) encompass accelerated the operation during credit accesability and teaching. Economic entrust involves access to resource, manegiral decisions, egalitarianism and benefits among beneficiary and community.  A woman entity is the predominent labor force in farming created adequate chances to ingress rural wealth magnifies the financial position of rural women. Women are measured as an especially vital end in the operation of switch in the rustic areas. Preconception influence many infects in the lives of female from profession advancement and growth of psychological wellbeing chos. Around 50% of the population in district is women, who also contribute to their livelihoods through working in agricultural and unorganized sectors. The Erode District administration implements various schemes formulated by State and Central government for the upliftment of female in frontier and is required to know whether the contribution of self-help group schemes and initiatives taken by the government has any positive effect on enhancing domestic gender equality in their households. In spite of these issues, the learnings focuses to analyses the economic empowerment of rural women and its impact on domestic gender equality in their houseworks.  This study aimed to accomplish the below-mentioned research objectives



  1. To observe the influence of demographic variables on the domestic gender equality in households of women from self-help groups of Erode District.

  2. To strike the impact of numerous proporsions of economic empowerment of rural women such as on income, control over income, loan, creation & ownership of assets, and saving & expenditures on domestic gender equality with special reference to Erode district.


The sample size for the work is 600 and out of it, 556 acknowledge. Multiple regressions are worn to forcast the worth of a induvidualistic unpredictable based on the assessment of two or more self-sufficient variables. Multiple regression also permits to decide the on the whole fit (variance explained) of the replica and the comparative payment of each of the mitt reader to the sum variation explained. In this research, it is used to measure the impact of income, control over income, loan, creation & ownership of assets and saving & expenditures on domestic gender equality of rural women in their households.  From the analysis it is clear that the consistent coefficient value, X5,i.e., “Savings and Expenditures” is the the largest part key factor that promotes the gender equality for the rural women in the households. After joining the self-help groups the rural women get economic empowerment or independence, whereby through the self-help group activities they are able to generate income for the family which help them in saving and maintaining the expenditures of the family, hence this a predominant factors which highlights or brings gender equality for the rural women in the households. Women participation in self help groups can take part in a innovative task in achieving sexual category fairness by empowering women to not just take cost-effective decisions but also during the assembly movement inculcating in them traits of group effort , management skills and structure their capacities towards generating upper incomes , individual self-determining and so on. Women’s SHGs encompass confirmed to be a key in opportunity from which women can be empowered. The paper highlights that Savings and Expenditures” is the most important factor that promotes the gender equality for the rural SHGs in the households.

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